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D. J; HILL.

PLOW. No. 471,336; Patented Mar. 22, 1892.

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DAVID J. HILL, OF LAMPASAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO V. T. CAMPBELL, M. LASKER, J. A. KEMP, AND H. KEMPNER, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.

P L O W SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,336, dated March 22, 1892.

Application filed November 2, 1891. Serial No. 410,656. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID J. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lampasas, in the county of Lampasas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Plow, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to plows; and it has for its object to provide a plow especially adapted to be used in turning the well-known black or stiff lands in the Western States, and to this end to provide one so shaped and constructed as to prevent clogging, choking, or dragging, the land being turned away from the plow as fast as out, whereas in other plows the dirt generally rises up over the top of the plow and on the landside, thus choking the same and causing the plow to drag; and the present invention provides a plow cutting the soil at such an angle that the dirt will not rise up or turn over the top of the same, but will be left directly on the furrow out.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plow constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation seen from the landside. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents an ordinary plow-beam, to the rear end of which are secured the ordinary handles B, extending rearwardly at an angle therefrom and secured at their lower ends to the mold board and landside, comprising the sweep, as illustrated in the drawings. The standard 0 is provided at its upper end with a shoulder 0, upon which the beam A rests, and with the upwardly-extending bolt-arms c, which are engaged by the nuts 0 on the top of said beam and thus secure the standard thereto, which by means of bolts or other securing means is rigidly connected to and carries the landside D of my improved sweep. The landside D is securely connected to the sharply-set rhomboidal mold-board E, which is of the same height throughout its length, by means of the cross and angle braces F or any other suitable connections for holding the landside and mold-board together. The

said mold-board extends rearwardly from its reduced end from the forward end of the landside at but a small angle from said landside and quite near thereto and presents a sharply-slanting face having but a small ourvature, the extreme lower edge of which is designed to rest flatly upon the ground, while its forward or front edge e meets with the front or upper edge d of the landside to form a sharp straight cutting-edge, forming a continuation of the share or point. The upper edge (1 of the landside D is extended upward the requisite distance or height to meet the front edge of the mold-board to its innermost point, where the said mold-board is set off from the landside at an angle, from which point the said landside is extended rearwardly.

to substantially the same length of the moldboard, thus providing a sweep which, as fast as the dirt is cut, will cause the same to immediately leave the mold-board and fall into the furrow cut.

The share or point G is securely riveted or bolted to both the landside and the moldboard. The said share or point is provided with a forward elongated cutting-point g, forming a continuation of the forward end and angle of the mold-board and of the meeting side or edge of the landside therewith, and also with the rearwardly-extendin g angleblade g, that is securely bolted to the extreme lower edge of the mold-board that travels upon the surface of the ground and extending sharply at an angle therefrom, thus providing a share having a cutting point and blade that will effectively turn the hard lands upon which the same is particularly used, while the special construction of the moldboard and the meeting landside provides for the rapid throwing aside of the dirt, as fully set forth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

In a plow, the combination of a landside secured to the lower endof the plow-standard and provided with a perfectly-straight upwardly inclined front edge, a rhomboidalshaped mold-board secured to said landside and slanting or diverging therefrom at a small angle and steeply set with respectthere meeting landside and with a rearwardly-extending inclined approximately flat blade bolted to said curved lower edge of the moldboard and extending sharply at an angle therefrom, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto allixed my signature in 20 the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID J. HILL.

\Vitnesses:

LEWIS W001), W. T. CAMPBELL. 

